rode her for 2 hours, topped off the gas tank, poured in some sta-bil, rode her around for another 10 minutes to get the treated gas down into the carbs, and put her back into the garage. she'll go up on the center stand soon.

not sure if i'll do any mods over the winter.

not the gs500, but the Bandit got a HID conversion and new Michelin Pilot Road 3's yesterday, today I rode 300kms just because I had to scrub them in , already lost the chicken strips somewhere in the mountains.

rode her around:

Bike Cave wrenching day.

1. Changed Suzi's wheels for white with new tires
2. Gave Bluesmudge a new front tire (Perelli Sport Demon) that was donated to the Bi8ke Cave by Grommet2k.
3. Gave Smudgy new front brake pads, too
4. Jmill got brakes bled so now they are better. Put on a trip meter knob. Oil change. Did something else but I forget.

Oh, photos or it didn't happen.....

Smudgy's old tire after we put the Sport Demon on. He needed a new tire and the brake pads had maybe a trip back home before they were bare metal.


Jmill at work


Suzi's new wheels! Can't wait for a non-rainy day to take her out for a ride. Also new sprockets and a blue chain.

Here's a full picture of Suzi with new wheels. Moved her after moving things around in the Bike Cave so I could get a full picture. Still raining so she won't go outside and get all dirty. Those wheels are new old stock. Brand new wheels with new bearings. New rubber, sprockets and chain, too. Decals off of ebay.

Brought a 2007 GS500f back from a one year grave. She was crashed by the PO and suffered a full fairing destruction. Sat for a year with bad gas. Put on a bucket light and some new LED signals on the front. Added some oil, (plan to do a full oil/filter change, new spark plugs, and clean the air filter thursday). Cleaned the carbs. Twice. The first time the valve needles got stuck open by some gunk from the tank that I drained afterwards. Started her up and rode her for HOURS. 

Plan to do candy orange paint and a new set of digital gauges. Original gauges were f*$$*$d in the crash. Right now im using my gps suctioned to the tank for a speedo. haha

Quote from: cheeterpasteen on December 03, 2012, 12:26:58 AM
Brought a 2007 GS500f back from a one year grave. She was crashed by the PO and suffered a full fairing destruction. Sat for a year with bad gas. Put on a bucket light and some new LED signals on the front. Added some oil, (plan to do a full oil/filter change, new spark plugs, and clean the air filter thursday). Cleaned the carbs. Twice. The first time the valve needles got stuck open by some gunk from the tank that I drained afterwards. Started her up and rode her for HOURS. 

Plan to do candy orange paint and a new set of digital gauges. Original gauges were f*$$*$d in the crash. Right now im using my gps suctioned to the tank for a speedo. haha

Quote from: adidasguy on December 02, 2012, 10:06:51 PM
Here's a full picture of Suzi with new wheels. Moved her after moving things around in the Bike Cave so I could get a full picture. Still raining so she won't go outside and get all dirty. Those wheels are new old stock. Brand new wheels with new bearings. New rubber, sprockets and chain, too. Decals off of ebay.

Damn...that is one good looking OEM bike.  You will have to let us know how the bike show goes.  That's coming up, right?

Quote from: adidasguy on December 02, 2012, 10:06:51 PM
Here's a full picture of Suzi with new wheels. Moved her after moving things around in the Bike Cave so I could get a full picture. Still raining so she won't go outside and get all dirty. Those wheels are new old stock. Brand new wheels with new bearings. New rubber, sprockets and chain, too. Decals off of ebay.

I'm curious about the extra turn signals..

The extra turn signals are white running lights which switch to (blink) amber when turn signals are blinking.
Provides extra visibility from the side - especially at night. Our normal turn signals are invisible from the side. When changing lanes, it adds that extra bit of visibility.
They are on plugs which makes it easy to remove the fairings - just unplug them.

Quote from: adidasguy on December 02, 2012, 10:06:51 PM

What's the neon looking thing where the rear tire is?

Is you chain blue or is that a trick of the light?

Looks good anyway 

Very cool looking Adidas.


Washed the bike, cleaned the chain, posed for the picture.

Suzi has a new dark blue chain. The bright blue line is a reflective tape strip on the rear hugger (a left over strip of blue rim tape).

OEM chain was starting to make noise - some links were getting sticky and no amount of lube would fix it. So, along with new old stock 1989 rims with new bearings, new rubber, new sprockets and switched front sprocket to 15t since Suzi is used for lots of city driving.

When getting rubber put on, Aurora Suzuki had a few original white lead wheel weights on their parts bin and used them for the white rims. I appreciate them for going that extra bit to make those white rims look perfect.

NEWS: Just got instructions for the 2012 Seattle International Motorcycle Show Dec 14-16. Junior will be there on display! It is official! Look for him in the Sound Rider booth. It is at the Seattle Convention Center downtown, not Qwest hall as we thought.

like the white wheels on the blue/white 09 plastics.

man that is sexy until she sees her first rain.... then they will be tan wheels.... still dayum...

 I dropped her.

Pulled into the garage after a wonderful day of riding, only to have her off balance when I went to lift it on the center stand (how I always put it). Fell over, started dripping gas, I lifted her back up and made sure everything was good. Only two little nicks, one of the bar end mirror which luckily folded up, and another on the rear plastics that's barely noticeable.

Thanks for the complements.

I love the white wheels. I had the new front rim for 2 years. Then found a new old stock rear rim in Greece for about $100. She needed new tires. Rear was getting a little square after 8k of mostly city miles. Front was still OK.

The stickers really add to the look.

Seattle: yes, this time of year Suzi doesn't go out much. I need to fix up Quin so I have a "mud city" bike for winter el-crapo weather days.

Junior is being treated like gold until the show. I do have to run him to get the gas down. Only 1/4 tank allowed by the fire marshal in the exhibit hall. But for a GS that's easy: just run until I hit reserve! 4 gallon tank of which 1 gallon is reserve.

that problem last month which was associated with my carbs was bad fuel, both bikes ended up afflicted (never going back to that servo chain again), but because the Bandit gets more weekend mileage than the GS500 weekdays (and has a bigger engine), the Bandit recovered quickly, the GS500 took some weeks, some kicking of cats (not really I like cats), fuel treatments and some nursing when riding to finally get it functioning properly.  so to celebrate I took it for a nice run through the mountains on the way to work this morning.  instead of the usual boring 17kms commute I did a 71kms twisties run.  brilliant time of day and had the road to myself virtually.  just one rider which I let past quickly and some cyclists that I passed fairly easily.

Quote from: adidasguy on December 03, 2012, 01:41:49 PM
The extra turn signals are white running lights which switch to (blink) amber when turn signals are blinking.
Provides extra visibility from the side - especially at night. Our normal turn signals are invisible from the side. When changing lanes, it adds that extra bit of visibility.
They are on plugs which makes it easy to remove the fairings - just unplug them.

OIC.
Nice!

Since my rear was lowered with links and my front was lowered to add my clip on's, my lean angle wasnt what it should have been so I shortened my stand, welded it, grinded, bead blasted it, used metal filler and freshly powder coated it. Now it leans like it should